1930 Penn Quakers football team

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1930 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1930 record5–4
Head coach
CaptainDick Gentle
Home stadiumFranklin Field
(Capacity: 78,000)
Seasons
← 1929
1931 →
1930 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colgate   –   9 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   8 – 1 – 0
Army   –   9 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 1
NYU   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   5 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   7 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   6 – 3 – 0
Duquesne   –   6 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 2 – 2
Yale   –   5 – 2 – 2
CCNY   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Drexel   –   6 – 3 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   3 – 4 – 2
Harvard   –   3 – 4 – 1
Princeton   –   1 – 5 – 1
Boston University   –   1 – 7 – 1
Vermont   –   1 – 7 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1930 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1930 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Lud Wray, the Quakers compiled a 5–4 record and outscored their opponents 225 to 145.[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Near-sighted guard Frank Yablonski wore a customized helmet which included optical lenses.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Swarthmore
W 63–0
October 11Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–6
October 18at Wisconsin
L 0–2718,175
October 25Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–025,000[3]
November 1Kansas
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–6
November 8Notre Dame
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 20–6075,657
November 15Georgia Tech
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–7
November 27Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 7–1371,000
December 6Navy
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–26

References[]

  1. ^ "1930 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Penn man gets around near-sight". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. October 12, 1930. p. 11.
  3. ^ "Pennsylvania Beats Lehigh Eleven, 40-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 26, 1930. p. S2.
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